I'm John Bachelor with Charles Bellegreno, the author of To Hellen Back.

It's an updating of last train from Hiroshima.

There's a lot of detail here. It's endless.

We're going to what happened on the ground

once the plutonium bomb was dropped.

It was about 11 in the morning, local time. bomb was

a the a local time and Nagasaki was the secondary city as Charlie said it had

civilian elements that Charles Sweeney the box car commander didn't want to destroy. Well, he destroyed them.

Nagasaki was in a bowl and it ripped through the bowl.

And there are anecdotes in Charlie's books that are hard to believe but there they are.

Let's begin with the one that's most surprising given that those of us who have survived

cancer are thankful for the fact of it, but there was no fact of it, to my knowledge in 1945.

There was a physician, I believe, who was dying of cancer in the Nagasaki hospital and he was fully irradiated by the

blast. Do I remember that correctly, Charlie? Not fully irradiated, but

irradiated in just the right amount in the same hospital

he was in where he was actually a terminally ill patient helping wherever he could but he was a terminal patient in the hospital bed in his own

hospital and he happened to be in a room deep in the hospital helping to develop some x-ray plates

when the bomb went off and he...

people on the outer part of the hospital,

the radiation from the Nacchisaki bomb was more intense

and people who were out near the outer walls of that hospital facing the

explosion actually received prompt radiation doses that were in most cases

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